A Fitting End

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Re: A Fitting End

#21 Post by Smeagol » Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:11 pm

I will demand to be deposited in my wheely bin and disposed of by the local council. Rubbish for the land fill or recyclable I will leave to others, but I want to get my money's worth out of my council tax!
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#22 Post by Stoneboat » Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:29 pm

I want to be incinerated, but with my pockets filled with fireworks. Scare the sh!t outta the undertakers, if nothing else. :D

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#23 Post by ribrash » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:02 pm

Stoneboat wrote:
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I want to be incinerated, but with my pockets filled with fireworks. Scare the sh!t outta the undertakers, if nothing else. :D
Popping corn has the same effect. =))

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#24 Post by Alisoncc » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:14 pm

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#25 Post by ribrash » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:30 pm

Alisoncc wrote:
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Stoneboat:


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#26 Post by Hydromet » Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:19 pm

Hmmm. I knew a girl who was reputed to go off like a packet of crackers.

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#27 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:18 pm

I believe that Jimmy Savile was buried 'upright' so that he could 'see the view' of the sea.

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#28 Post by om15 » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:17 pm

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Actually his grave faces a mixed sex school, his dreadful headstone was removed and crushed, but don't know what happened to him.

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#29 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:16 pm

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Actually his grave faces a mixed sex school, his dreadful headstone was removed and crushed, but don't know what happened to him.
The 6ft-wide triple plot, filled with two and half tons of reinforced concrete, had steel bars inserted to deter grave robbers.
Removing the coffin would take much longer and involve closing the graveyard for two days, the council plans show.

The undertakers visited the family in 2012 and the family agreed to the exhumation plan but then the trust refused to release any money to pay for it.

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#30 Post by Stoneboat » Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:57 am

Alisoncc wrote:
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Stoneboat:
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#31 Post by Sisemen » Sat Mar 16, 2019 2:20 am

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#32 Post by jimtherev » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:22 pm

The Midland Railway Trust offer a package in company with the Woodland Burial Ground at the bottom of our Narrow gauge line. You can have all or some of
Standard gauge train from Butterley Station
Service in our Tin Tabernacle
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coffin then carried to the grave plot.

It is said that the inventor of the crossword was planted there; his grave is easy to find: it's six down and three across.

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#33 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:30 pm

From the website of our new local crematorium:
After years of work and painstaking research the site which lies just off the North Deeside Road at Crathes was identified as the preferred location. Mr Burnett the local Laird agreed the long term lease of the site in a field which used to be part of Baldarroch Farm. Mr Burnett was initially keen to have the crematorium named after himself however it was felt the perhaps the name ‘Burnett Crematorium’ was not the most politically correct so the name of ‘Baldarroch Chapel and Crematorium’ was chosen in homage to the farm.
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#34 Post by Karearea » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:37 pm

And with the morn, those angel faces smile...

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#35 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:00 am

jimtherev wrote:
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It is said that the inventor of the crossword was planted there; his grave is easy to find: it's six down and three across.
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#36 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:44 pm

What is needed is for a steam railway enthusiast to have their body fed into the firebox . . .

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#37 Post by boing » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:03 pm

I suppose being fed through a jet engine in cruise could cause problems but if it could be made to work the "scattering" effect would be spectacular.

I joked with my family that I wanted a Viking funeral, you know, pushed out to sea in a burning boat and sailing into the sunset (in more ways than one). It took them a while to work out that most of the time on the West Coast of the US the winds blow on-shore.


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#38 Post by boing » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:11 pm

On a more sombre note, a fellow that I fortunately knew only vaguely committed suicide. He went around to the back of the local fire department building, called the emergency services, told them where he was and what he was going to do and then shot himself. He did not want anybody from his family to find the body. I think the expression is "neat but not gaudy".


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#39 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:46 pm

boing wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:11 pm
He went around to the back of the local fire department building, called the emergency services, told them where he was and what he was going to do and then shot himself. He did not want anybody from his family to find the body.
Presumably, a member of his family would have had to identify the corpse.

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#40 Post by OFSO » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:51 pm

How do you "vaguely commit suicide" ? Sounds like something that Great Ditherer Theresa May would do.

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